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^1C ComPany may import such alcoholic drinks and liquors as the
writing may.require for the use of their foreign employees but only with the
written permission of the Shaikh, and the Political Agent, Bahrain, or any authority
eputed by them, but the Company shall not sell or give alcoholic drinks or liquors
o the Subjects of the Shaikh or to the Subjects of adjoining Rulers who may be
employed within the State. J
Article 10
The employees of the Company shall be allowed to enter into and to leave
the State at all times without let or hindrance and free of all charge, and the Shaikh
•Migrant to the Company's employees every facility required for the purpose of
the Company’s operations hereunder.
But the Company’s employees shall not interfere or by their actions cause any
disturbance or cause opposition to the Shaikh’s authority within the State of Umm-
al-Qaiwain, and the employees shall not go beyond the limit of their duties when
employed within or when leaving the confines of the State of Umm-al-Qaiwain
for the purpose of this Agreement.
Further in the event of any of the Company’s employees—whether he be a
senior or a junior employee—committing an offence which may cause disorder or
interfere with the moral or religious laws or interfere with the politics or Subjects
of the State of Umm-al-Qaiwain or excite them to sedition, then the Shaikh may
apply to the Political Agent, Bahrain, to send the person concerned—if a foreigner—
out of the State of Umm-al-Qaiwain, but if a Subject of the Shaikh then the Shaikh
may arrest the culprit and deal with him according to the laws of the State of
Umm-al-Qaiwain.
Article 11
{a) For the purpose of its operations hereunder the Company shall have the
right without hindrance to construct, maintain and operate power stations,
refineries, pipelines and storage tanks, facilities for water supply including boring
for water, telegraph and telephone lines and installations, and wireless installations,
roads, railways, tramways, buildings, ports, harbours, harbour works, aircraft,
buildings and landing places for aircraft, wharves and jetties, oil and coaling
stations, with such lighting as may be requisite and any other facilities or works
which the Company may consider necessary and for such purposes to use free of
all payments any stone, sand, gravel, gypsum, lime, clay or similar materials or
water which may be available provided always that the inhabitants of the State
are not prevented from taking their usual requirements of these materials and that
the water supply of the local inhabitants and nomad population who may be
dependent on the same is not endangered. The Company at its discretion may
select the position of any such works. The Company may likewise install and
operate without hindrance all such means of transportation by land, air and water
as may be necessary for the effective conduct of its operations hereunder provided
it is for the purposes of this Agreement.
{b) The Company shall under normal conditions accept and transmit free of
charge on its wireless and telegraph installations such of the Shaikh’s messages as
will not interfere with the Company’s business, and in times of national emergency
the Shaikh shall have the necessary use free of charge of the Company’s wireless
and telegraph installations and railways for governmental purposes.
(c) The Shaikh’s ships shall have the right to use harbours utilised or con­
structed by the Company provided that such use in no way hampers the Company
or interferes in any way with the safety of its operations of which the Company
shall be the sole judge. Any wharves or appurtenances constructed by the Com­
pany shall be for its exclusive use. The Company may use for the purpose of its
operations the harbours along the coasts of the State, but the Company shall not
impede or interfere with the subjects of the Shaikh or their right to continue the
use of existing harbours, anchorages, wharves and docks along the coast of the
State at present utilised by them for their sailing craft and fishing boats.
Article 12
The Company shall have the right and be given the necessary facilities:
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the Company may decide to erect within the State, and